Artist Launchpad
2025-05-31 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-06-07 09:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Summit Artspace, 140 East Market Street, Akron, OH, 44308, US
Propel Your Career as an Artist – Apply now for 2025!
The deadline to apply is Monday, March 17, at 11:59 p.m.
This immersive and interactive course is designed to support your growth as an artist by giving you the tools you need to develop your vision, goals, and communications. The program is structured so that you can connect with your peers in the course as well as the local artists and business professionals leading the workshops. Emerging literary, performing, and visual artists of all kinds will have something to gain from this program.
Program attendees will receive workbooks to help build on the knowledge gained in each workshop. Coffee and breakfast items will be provided.
This program is great for emerging artists who are looking for the next step in your career.

You might be:

Rediscovering your art after several years
A recent graduate from an art school program
A self-taught artist gaining momentum
An artist who needs a refresher on business-related skills

Program dates: Saturdays, April 19 – May 17, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Saturdays, May 31 – June 7, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
The 2025 schedule and instructors will be announced soon.
There is no fee to apply. If accepted, the participation fee is a self-selecting amount between $50-$250. The program is valued at $1,750 per participant and has been subsidized through the support of our generous sponsors. If the participation fee is a concern and you need assistance with attending, please contact natalie@summitartspace.org.
Stay tuned for more information by checking our www.SummitArtspace.org/Artist-Launchpad/ webpage and follow us on social media!

Akron Bicentennial ArtWalk – June 12
2025-06-12 17:00 - 21:00 | Summit Artspace on East Market, 140 East Market Street, Akron, OH, 44308
Join us for the Akron Bicentennial-themed ArtWalk on Thursday, June 12, from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m.! This event will host vendors from the Akron Bazaar on Summit Artspace’s 3rd floor. Happy Camper will be serving handcrafted lemonade from their vintage Airstream alongside delicious food trucks. Stay tuned for a complete list of activities, partners, and vendors.

Closed July 4th and 5th
2025-07-04 - 2025-07-05 | Summit Artspace, 140 East Market Street, Akron, OH, 44308, US
The building is closed July 4 & 5 for the holiday. We look forward to seeing everyone on Friday, July 11, from 5:00–8:00 p.m. for the opening of our fantastic summer exhibitions!

Summer Exhibitions Opening Reception
2025-07-11 17:00 - 20:00 | Summit Artspace on East Market, 140 East Market Street, Akron, OH, 44308
Five exhibitions open at Summit Artspace on Friday, July 11, 2025, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Spring exhibitions will be open during public hours on Fridays from Noon to 7:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. through Friday, September 13, 2025.
Summit Artspace’s Spring Exhibitions opening night will showcase an incredible group of local artists in the galleries throughout all three floors of the historic Akron building. The event provides an opportunity to meet exhibiting artists, hear their stories, and engage with the community.
Betty and Howard Taylor Main Gallery
Though We May Roam | Group Exhibition
Artists Lizzi Aronhalt, Andy Curlowe, Lauren Davies, Michelle Droll, Charisse Harris, and Arnold Tunstall explore what it means to call the rustbelt home through a range of mediums and processes in this exhibition. Themes of domesticity, environment, and place all converge to expand our understanding of the world around us and the specific place in it that we claim. The feeling of home can be as personal as the way our blanket smells or as universal as the grass below our feet. Home is often informed and defined in contrast to other places we visit.
Welcome Gallery
Overdose Awareness Exhibition
In partnership with Summit County Public Health
In honor of Overdose Awareness Day on August 31, artists in Summit and contiguous counties created artworks exploring their personal experience with overdose and addiction, honoring a loved one who has died, and serving as an ally for those who have struggled. The day represents the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdose, remember without stigma those who have died, and acknowledge the grief of those left behind.
Intersections Gallery
A Bunch of Landscapes | Cassie Jeffries
Abstract paintings on shaped canvases by Cassie Jeffries are inspired by the environment and its ever-changing landscapes. The subject of landscapes and their natural systems of change, like erosion, growth, and decay, acts as a conduit for processing internal and social anxieties. For the artist, this focus on change makes way for coming to terms with personal griefs. Many of the natural motifs and forms present in the paintings are drawn from Jeffries’ home in Akron, OH.
Forum Gallery
Roots | Juried Exhibition
Curated by Al Macdougall, this exhibition centers around themes of personal histories, familial histories, and paying homage to home- whether that be Akron or an abstract feeling. This theme will also honor Summit Artspace for all it has done for its artists and patrons since its inception. Mediums include—but are not limited to—textile, film, and mixed media photography. Works will emphasize a cultural tie to heritage or documentation.
Horizon Gallery
Covered in Snow | Katelynn Rogers
In this series of photographs, Katelynn Rogers draws connections between environmental decay and social issues impacting women in the state of Ohio. Nature, and specifically trees, became a personal projection of anxieties reflecting the artist’s own healthcare emergency, which led to research into other women’s experiences dealing with domestic abuse and reproductive crises. Motifs like tree branches and spider webs act as visual metaphors for the collective disquietude of local women, and their relationship to the socio-political climate of the state.

Akron ArtWalk
2025-09-11 17:00 - 21:00 | Summit Artspace on East Market, 140 East Market Street, Akron, OH, 44308
Experience a quarterly celebration of the arts featuring artist vendors, creative activities, music, food, and more throughout the Historic Arts District. Join us on Thursday, September 11, from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. for a recovery-themed ArtWalk. Admission is free and open to the public at participating venues. For a complete list of information, please visit our ArtWalk page.

Artist Open House: Mix & Meet
2025-10-25 12:00 - 16:00 | Myers School of Art, 150 E Exchange St, Akron, OH, 44325, United States
Local artists working in all disciplines are invited to join us for Artist Open House: Mix & Meet on Saturday, October 25, from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Meet fellow artists, business professionals, and organizations towards advancing their practice with information tables, private mentorship opportunities, and community building. Due to renovations happening throughout the Summit Artspace building, this event will take place at the Mary Schiller Myers School of Art located at 150 E Exchange St, Akron, OH 44325.
Registration is required to attend, and it operates on a pay-what-you-can basis. If the registration fee poses a barrier to your participation, please reach out to Anna Young by emailing her at anna@summitartspace.org.
Visit https://www.summitartspace.org/mix-and-meet/ for the most up-to-date information about this event.

Artists Sunday Weekend Shopping Event at Lock 3
2025-11-28 17:00 - 21:00, 2025-11-29 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-30 10:00 - 16:00 | Lock 3, 200 S Main St, Akron, OH, 44308, United States
Opening Night – Black Friday
Friday, November 28 | 5–9 p.m.
Small Business Saturday
November 29 | 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Artists Sunday
November 30 | 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
This event is FREE to attend!

Summit Artspace is partnering with Akron Bazaar and Lock 3 to bring a Holiday Market to Downtown Akron the weekend after Thanksgiving! Join us at Lock 3, 200 S Main St, Akron, OH.

Champion local artists and promote the giving of the arts this holiday season. The event will feature local arts and crafts vendors, encouraging people to purchase art as unique holiday gifts. Visit with Summit Artspace’s participating resident artists and vendors from our fantastic event partner, Akron Bazaar!

For more information and vendor lists, please visit https://www.summitartspace.org/artists-sunday/.

W. I. P. Artist Meet-up at Akron Soul Train
2025-12-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Akron Soul Train, 191 S Main St, Akron, OH, 44308, United States
W. I. P. Artist Meet-up
Join us Thursday, December 11, from 6–8pm at Akron Soul Train to gather with fellow local artists! Exhibitions on view include “My Hand Was Yours to Hold,” curated by Akron Soul Train’s Artist in Residence and Artist Programming Committee member Abby Cipar, featuring works by Cipar, Avery Mags Duff, Nick Lee, Moo, and Maria Uhase, along with “Private Rights” by Artist in Residence Alex Younger. This event was organized by our Artist Programming Committee for community building—no agenda, just artists coming together!
Akron Soul Train is located at 191 S. Main St, Akron, Ohio.
